Mvelés

Mvelés is a Hungarian noun that appears primarily in historical texts and regional dialects. In modern standard Hungarian, the related term is művelés, which denotes cultivation in a broad sense: soil preparation and tillage (földművelés) as well as the cultivation of skills, knowledge, or culture. Mvelés is therefore typically regarded as an archaic or dialectal variant of művelés.

The semantic range of mvelés overlaps with agricultural cultivation and, in older usage, with the cultivation of the mind or character. The form is found in older agrarian writings, regional dialects, and legal codes where orthography differed from contemporary standard Hungarian. Etymologically, it is generally linked to the same root as művelés, though precise derivational details are not always clear in modern references.

In present-day texts the distinction is usually inferred from context: when discussing land work, mvelés signals cultivation; in metaphorical or educational contexts, it may reflect a historical sense of cultivating knowledge or culture. Because of its limited current use, readers encountering mvelés are advised to consider the surrounding language to determine whether the sense is agricultural or cultural.

See also: művelés, földművelés, művelődés.